Vista - System keeps crashing

02-01-2009

My friend is using Windows Vista. A couple of days ago he downloaded Adobe
Flash player while using the WebShots website. After downloading the player
his system starting crashing for no reason. As someone who has been working
on his computer I'm clueless as to why his system is crashing. I was
thinking that it might be that somewhere he got a load of trojans or even a
virus while browsing the web. Am I correct in the assumption that this could
be a possibility or could it be something else?

Thanks

02-01-2009

Define 'crash' more exactly... ?
What's the fault data for the crash?
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#bucket
Does turning off Adobe Flash in IE's Tools:Manage Add-ons make the crashes
go away?

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Quote:

> My friend is using Windows Vista. A couple of days ago he downloaded
> Adobe
> Flash player while using the WebShots website. After downloading the
> player
> his system starting crashing for no reason. As someone who has been
> working
> on his computer I'm clueless as to why his system is crashing. I was
> thinking that it might be that somewhere he got a load of trojans or even
> a
> virus while browsing the web. Am I correct in the assumption that this
> could
> be a possibility or could it be something else?
>
> Thanks

02-01-2009	#1 (permalink)
sweethaven n/a posts	System keeps crashing My friend is using Windows Vista. A couple of days ago he downloaded Adobe Flash player while using the WebShots website. After downloading the player his system starting crashing for no reason. As someone who has been working on his computer I'm clueless as to why his system is crashing. I was thinking that it might be that somewhere he got a load of trojans or even a virus while browsing the web. Am I correct in the assumption that this could be a possibility or could it be something else? Thanks
My System Specs

02-01-2009	#2 (permalink)
zachd [MSFT] n/a posts	Re: System keeps crashing Define 'crash' more exactly... ? What's the fault data for the crash? http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#bucket Does turning off Adobe Flash in IE's Tools:Manage Add-ons make the crashes go away? -- Speaking for myself only. See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -- "sweethaven" <sweethaven@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:EE28BDB0-F362-484D-BE47-1EE71590F29D@xxxxxx Quote: > My friend is using Windows Vista. A couple of days ago he downloaded > Adobe > Flash player while using the WebShots website. After downloading the > player > his system starting crashing for no reason. As someone who has been > working > on his computer I'm clueless as to why his system is crashing. I was > thinking that it might be that somewhere he got a load of trojans or even > a > virus while browsing the web. Am I correct in the assumption that this > could > be a possibility or could it be something else? > > Thanks
My System Specs

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